You learn something new
everyday people. Last night for instance as I was
placing this film from Japan ‘The Glamorous Life of
Sachiko Hanai’, I learned that this was a Japanese Pink
Film. A Pink Film, as it has come to my attention,
is sub genre of Japanese films which we hear on the
other side of the Pacific they call Soft Core
Porn. Think Cinemax on a late Saturday
night. This genre of films has been around in
Japan since the mid-sixties, with an output of over a
hundred films a year, and is still going strong today
some 40 years later. That would mean that there
are literally thousands of these movies floating around
out there, but this is the first one I have ever seen,
and apparently one of the first to snag an American
distro deal. So what possessed Palm Pictures to
snag up this little wacky film and assault the world
with it? You’d have to ask them that, but I’m
kinda glad they did.

To assure watchers of the
Pink Film genre what this film is ultimately about,
despite the strong political overtones, we meet Sachiko
(Emi Kuroda) who is a somewhat slow witted prostitute in
what I guess is Tokyo, allegedly helping a young man
with his English assignments. We can guess that
something may be a little skewed as Sachiko asks the
young man what the capitol of the USA is and he replies
‘New York’. For this ‘correct’ answer dude is
rewarded with sexual favors ending with a scene where he
ejaculates on Sachiko’s breast for about a minute.
This is a Japanese flick so there are strict censorship
laws against genitalia and penetration and the like, but
apparently there no law against showing a guy blow his
load (fake though it may be) as long as you don’t show
his dick. Anyway, after this little encounter our
bountiful heroine goes into a café for a latte where a
North Korean and an Arab are making some kind of
deal. The deal goes wrong, the North Korean shoots
the Arab and accidentally puts a bullet in Sachiko’s
forehead.

Now the weirdness kicks in
full bore as the bullet has made Sachiko an existential
spouting genius who accidentally has possession of a
silver tube with the cloned finger of President George
W. Bush that the North Korean killed the Arab
over. Why a cloned finger you might ask? Why
to launch all the USA’s ICMB’s of course. The
North Korean is now trying to track down Sachiko who is
still having sex with almost everyone she meets for
whatever reason, while a superimposed head of George W.
Bush follows her and advises her on what is expected of
her. That might include saving the world or
destroying America’s enemies for the superimposed GW’s
‘New World Order’. Hell, I couldn’t tell you.

After watching a few
supposed Japanese exploitation flicks and complaining
that these guys don’t thing the first about
exploitation, it is obvious that I’ve never seen a
Japanese Pink Film because this thing is without a doubt
the most exploitive, raunchy, and graphic film – That’s
not hardcore porn – that I’ve ever seen. I would
have really liked to have been an actor on the set of
this flick because it practically GUARANTEED that I
would have gotten a chance to grope actress Emi
Kuroda. Guaranteed. Miss Kuroda should
really be congratulated for her tireless efforts in this
flick as she had to suffer through getting fake f**ked
by a half dozen dudes, had to pretend to get fake
fingered by George W, Bush’s disembodied finger while
rolling naked on a Tokyo roof, and also endure getting
fake ejaculated on twice with the last one being all
over her face. If all of that doesn’t offend you,
then director Mitsuru Meike is sure hoping his politics
do.

In between the graphic sex
scenes, Meike is delivering a rather damning message
about our president, basically portraying him as a
violent, homicidal enemy of humanity and imbecilic
mindless puppet of the arms industry. Now I may
have some issues with my president’s foreign policy but
damn. I suspect it is this, and not the sex
scenes, which have brought so much attention to this
particular Pink Film, and it also helps that Meike found
ways to squeeze in his required smut and his pronounced
political views into his film that were actually quite
clever and innovative.

Japan simply fascinates
me. This a country that has a film industry that
shows a woman being drowned in vat of feces (Miike’s
‘Dead or Alive’), shows another woman taking a semen
filled facial but if it show a penis, that sucker better
mosaiced out or someone is doing hard time.
Needless to say ‘The Glamorous life of Sachiko Hanai’
isn’t a film for everyone. Hell, it may not be a
film for anyone but it is original and Emi Kuroda is as
about shapely as they come. So if you’re a GW
hating liberal who also doesn’t mind the outright
objectification of women – yes, those two are generally
mutually exclusive - then ‘The Glamorous life of
Sachiko Hanai’ is the soft core porno flick that you’ve
been begging for.